The Archive · 1940

Providing Machinery

The Bill provided necessary machinery for enforcing various foreign codes, and also dealt with the action British civil authorities were to take in regard to arrest of deserters and the holding of foreign servicemen sentenced to imprisonment, and power of billeting foreign troops.

The House, Sir Edward Grigg declared, might well be proud to pass the Bill, because a new birth of freedom was implicit in it, and it represented the innermost aspirations least 100,000,000 human beings at present under the Nazi heel.—Reuter.

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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